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Molly and Adam Barnett are trying to break a century and a half-old curse to save their father’s life.  Dad’s 35th birthday is only days away, and, if they cannot stop her, Lucinda, the ghost of a long-dead family servant, is going to scare him to death. Lucinda is still furious that, back in the middle of the 19th century, their great-, great-, great-grandfather fired her after accusing her of stealing some valuable jewellery.  Ever since, her ghost has been killing off the men of the family on the eve of their 35th birthdays.
Tim Barnett, the children’s father, is a well-known documentary film maker, famous for his films debunking the myth that ghosts exists.  Molly, and her younger brother, Adam, are proud of their father and of his award-winning movies.  Too bad he’s completely wrong about the ghosts.  They want to tell him about Lucinda, and her intention to kill him, but are afraid that the shock will accomplish exactly what they hope to avert.  Fortunately, the children have help in the form of the ghost of their grandfather, who has recently turned up with an old family desk.
When their father flies off to California to present his newest film, The Proof that Ghosts Exist? Not! at a film festival, Molly and Adam, and their ghostly granddad, tag along, determined to keep dad safe while figuring out how to solve the problem of Lucinda, once and for all.
Strange men who look just like lost friends, chance encounters with the spirits of old miners, former teachers, and kindly neighbours, earthquakes, dust storms, and the wildest “technical effects” going keep the tension rising until the book’s concluding cliff-hanger!
The Curse of the Evening Eye, by Carol Matas and Perry Nodelman, is the second book in The Ghosthunters series.  Watch for The Hunt for the Haunted Elephant!
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